What is the name of Gandhiji’s father? What is the name of Sardar Patel’s father? What is the name of Sardar Patel’s wife? None of my well informed friends had a definitive answer. This is the tragedy of Congress politics and its impact on the nation. Gandhiji led the most extra...
Although there is some debate about the exact birthplace of Jinnah, historical records suggest that his family’s connection to Paniali and Jhirk is significant. Moreover, Paniali is just 80 kilometers away from Poorbandar (پُور بندر), where Mahatma Gandhi was born, hig...
Haryana in Sep 2013 thatOROP would be implemented within 100 days of his government coming to power. Then he made a promise at the heights of the Siachin on the occasion of Diwali last year thatOROP would be implemented shortly. Yet another Diwali is around the corner...
However, this elder brother was to go to America for further education (since Bapuji was an officer and an intellectual, all his sons had taken after him and considered good education as the primary aim of life) and hence did not want to be encumbered with a newly wedded wife just prior...
First a caution before reading this post: Do you remember what Alfred Einstein said about Mahatma Gandhi? You do! Well, nevertheless I am refreshing your memory; he said, “Coming generations will scarcely believe that such a man of flesh and blood ever walked the earth.” It was the same...
Govindram introduced her to Hindi cinema for playback singing in 1942. Mangti (1942) was her first Hindi film for which she sang 10 songs;all super-hit. She sang in another film Nishane (1942) which too was a hit. In the next year she sang in three movies named Paapi, Poonji, ...
It is from the1963 movie Meri Soorat Teri Aankhen. The movie had a beautiful story with a lesson for all of us. Raj Kumar (Ishwarlal) is a wealthy businessman and dislikes everything ugly. When his wife, Kamla (Achla Sachdev), becomes pregnant and gives birth to an ugly son, he ask...
“The most memorable years of my life are spent in the arms of another man’s wife”. There was, naturally, disbelief and shock at this sudden explosive confession. Enjoying their discomfiture, Nehru took another fifteen seconds or so before he concluded, “My mother, that is.” There was...